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Posted on 04/22/2007 10:47:13 AM PDT by veronica
April 22, 2007 -- MICHAEL Chabon's first full-length novel for adults in seven years, the delayed follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay," is bound to set off a firestorm of controversy.
"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" depicts Jews as constantly in conflict with one another, and its villains are a ruthless, ultra-Orthodox sect that resembles the Lubavitchers, reports The Post's Kyle Smith.
Chabon, who is Jewish, depicts some of his Jewish characters as willing to do anything, including massacring other Jews, in the cause of Zionism.
Like Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America," it takes place in an alternate reality. Chabon's tale is a comic noir detective story set in a contemporary America in which an atomic bomb was dropped on Germany in 1946 and Jews, who tried and failed in a bid to found modern Israel, were instead temporarily settled in the place where FDR once suggested they go - Alaska.
As the story begins, a section of Alaska that has been the Jewish homeland for the last 60 years is about to "revert" to being part of America, meaning the Jews who live there will again be stateless.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I read Chabon’s Adventures of Cavalier and Clay and I know it won a noble prize , but jeez, it wasn’t very good.
I do like “alternative history” stories but I think I’ll give this book a pass.
HA, I just realized that I wrote Noble Prize instead of Pulitzer Prize.
Oops.
Jewish self-hatred is one peculiarity I don’t really understand. If you have that much trouble with your ethnic identity, why not simply stop calling yourself a Jew.
Maybe part of it is to believe that if one is good enough, the tormentor will like you or at least leave you alone. Maybe all the world's screaming against the Jews is too frightening for some Jews to deal with so they attack Israel also to show that they're good people.
Also, who says Jews are immune from the many rotten trends that permeate the culture? They can fall for stupid ideas too such as anti-Semitism. Rational self interest and self preservation are not automatic in the human race -- certainly not with my co religionists.
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Who has the screen rights? Are there hot scenes where buff guys get tortured to death? |
Kind of reminds me another peculiarity - liberals who would do anything to avoid calling themselves liberals... There are people who just can be at peace with themselves, I suppose.
All the liberals I know are proud of it. I argue with them all of the time but it’s hard to get through. I guess they like having the govermnemt running their lives and raiding their wallets.
Of course, if "Zion" is in Alaska . . . !
As for the original point, go try to make a liberal politician to utter word liberal about him- or herself.
Schmuck. I’m sure his garbage will meet a good reception in hellholes like Cairo and Jiddah. Guess he’s going after that particular market.
I just realized that I wrote Noble Prize instead of Pulitzer Prize.
Add them to the Academy Awards, mix em together and call them the liberal/commie awards. We’ll understand what you mean.
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